Background Global control of tuberculosis is hampered by slow, insensitive diagnostic methods, particularly for the detection of drugresistant forms and in patients. The Fujitsu ScanSnap ix500 remains the best desktop document scanner for efficient scanning for a paperless office. Alcatraz Island l k t r z is located in San Francisco Bay, 1. San Francisco, California, United States. The small. Journal of weekly news and commentaries about rocks and minerals and. John Betts  Fine Minerals, New York, NY Dealers of Fine Minerals and Natural Crystal Clusters since. I frequently hold secret sales of up to 5. But these. sales are announced only through my email list. You must sign up for my email list at. You will receive an email every time new minerals are posted to my site AND. I am having a secret sale. I do not sell your information, and I have no access to the list as it is. Constant Contact. Lastly, you may unsubascribe at any time. Several visitors last week were confused by the use of Thumbnail to describe. The strictest use is any mineral specimen that fits in a 1 2. There are judged competitions at major mineral shows that award collectors. Competitive exhibitors. But in common usage, Thumbnail describes any mineral that fits in a Perky style. As you can see by the photo that small specimens have lots of extra room. BibMe Free Bibliography Citation Maker MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard. Format. Download or CDRom Compatible for both MacOS and Windows Syncs with design software Adobe, Corel, or QuarkXPress as well as with PANTONE CAPSURE. Express Helpline Get answer of your question fast from real experts. Thumbnail specimens. Here are the sizes of each category used on this web site. Centimeters. Millimeters. Inches. Thumbnail Sized Specimens. Miniature Sized Specimens. Cabinet Sized Specimens. Large Cabinet Sized Specimens. Since small specimens and large specimens fit in a Thumbnail box, you must. READ THE DIMENSIONS listed in each item description. I go to great pains. Read the description. Use a ruler to visualize the size. Do not look at your. Diamond testers are portable devices that test thermal conductivity of diamonds. Diamonds are composed of pure carbon atoms linked by double bonds, resulting. Diamond testers are used for testing faceted gemstones to. Diamond testers have no use to test uncut diamonds rough diamond crystals. That is because fake rough diamonds do not exist. In the gem trade, fakers will insert faceted gemstones composed of lesser. But the morphology shape of rough diamonds cannot be easily copied. And. the value of rough diamond crystals is much less than faceted diamond gemstones. This is the same reason currency counterfeiters fake 1. So fake rough diamonds do not exist. It is true that glassies, the planar octahedral diamond crystals can be. But why bother And the complex diamond crystals offered for sale. If you are miner at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas, having a diamond. But the park service will test your finds and. But when buying from a dealer, that has tested the diamond before selling. Last week I wrote about the relative safety of collecting radioactive minerals. But I omitted issues regarding. I forgot to give advice on handling radioactive minerals, because I. I mount radioactive minerals in Perky style display boxes. Once mounted. I never touch them mineral again. This is because ingesting or inhaling the. The decomposed autunite. Daybreak Mine in Washington are among the worstThese are the steps I take with radioactive minerals. Lay down a large plastic dry cleaning bag on the counter. Wear disposable gloves, like the type used in the fast food industry. Before handling any minerals layout the display boxes, in the open position. Mineral Tack on the base to mount to. Transfer the mineral specimen from its shipping box into the display box. Dispose of the packing the specimen arrived in, with the disposable gloves. Dispose in the trash. If you take care not to transfer any dust from the mineral that got on your. Just to be certain, wash your hands. Older collectors, that lived through the 1. Not surprisingly, younger collectors are mostly ignorant of the. But everyone should know Collecting radioactive minerals is safe, as long. Remember distance is your friend. Radiation exposure falls at the square. Therefore the dose received at 4 feet is 11. So store the minerals a few feet away from where you sit. And. do not do as one collector did at a  mineral show when he placed a uraninite. I chased him down the aisle. And he was a radiologist Radon is the main issue when storing radioactive minerals. It is a radioactive. The good news is that radon is heavier than air. If you have a basement in. Most homes. built where there is granite bedrock have radon expulsion systems that actively. Keeping radioactive specimens in Tupperware actually concentrates the radon. Be careful not to breathe in as you open the container. The dose of radon from your small specimens is not much more than is generated. If you had some REALLY HOT. I would advise. storing them in your garage. Computer displays and digital cameras vary greatly. One way you can ensure. I use this image. Click on the image for full size. The color swatches selected at my local paint store. Complex colors were. Difficult to render colors. Running down the center are a series of warm gray and cool. If your setting are too cool or too warm the gray will not. In the foreground I added a simple white swatch to see if. You can make your own swatches and experiment with adjusting the color. It will assist you in capturing. Last week I changed the light bulbs on my photo stage. I use Solux 4. 70. K color temperature Solux halogen bulbs to illuminate minerals when photographing. I have photographed over 5. When used in conjunction with the white balance set on my camera to 4. K they yield the most accurate color rendition of minerals. Note that I said most accurate. The color rendition is good, but it is. Minerals like prehnite, datolite, cobaltoan calcite are difficult. Would somebody explain how you can make the color yellow. But the issue of color rendition became more difficult when I replaced the. Solux bulbs this week. The new bulbs were supposedly from the same batch. NOT the same. Some bulbs age over time. Perhaps my old bulbs had shifted bluer over time. The manufacturer reported. Perhaps there was low voltage in the power. Color shifts have never happened in the past like this. After struggling with photographing about 2. I shifted back to. OK. I mistakenly thought one was failing. But this incident illustrates to difficulties with accurately photographing. I wonder if other mineral dealers care about this issue and struggle the. This week is the 9. Twenty years ago I recognized the best way to run my web site was to post. And each update was. I posted large updates between. I currently average 6. I am now providing more photographs for each mineral and. I do not post 5. 2 updates every year. Usually 6 7 weeks are skipped during. For example, this year the Independence. Day holiday on July 4 falls on a Tuesday, the day I update the site. Since. many collectors take the week off, or are too busy recovering from the holiday. I do not post new minerals. Some day I will empty my warehouse and run out of new  mineral specimens. I am rephotographing older minerals with my new camera. I hope to have no. I am unsure how I will keep this site interesting when I run out of new minerals. If you have any ideas feel free to share them with me by emailing me at. Intermediate level mineral collectors often misunderstand the value of the. They tend to overvalue the history. The mineral specimen itself is of primary importance. A great history and. Always ask yourself whether the mineral specimen is worthy of your collection. One good reason for placing specimen quality first is because there are too. Years ago one dealer fabricated. Old labels are paired with contemporary or lesser specimens. Minerals from. foreign countries are mislabeled as from classic USA localities. And museum. numbers are added to specimens. Most of these fakes are easily detected by knowledgeable collectorsdealers. I consider part of my value added is that I detect these frauds and. You will note that I started this commentary stating  intermediate. That is because beginners focus totally. They have not yet learned about quality. And advanced collectors. But if you are in the intermediate category of collectors you should always. I was surprised to discover that I had sold over 4. Though a few were from collections I purchased. The bulk of my library was acquired at the carl Krotki book collection auction. Swann Galleries in NYC in 1. Berkeley, California Wikipedia. Berkeley, California. Charter city1City of Berkeley. Downtown Berkeley viewed from the Berkeley Hills, with San Francisco in the background. Location of Berkeley in Alameda County, California. Coordinates 3. 75. N1. 221. 62. 2W 3. N 1. 22. 2. 72. 78W 3. Coordinates 3. 75. N1. 221. 62. 2W 3. N 1. 22. 2. 72. 78W 3. Country United States. State California. County. Alameda. Incorporated. April 4, 1. 87. 8 2Chartered. March 5, 1. 89. 5 1Government  Type. Council Manager1  Mayor. Jesse Arregun3  Council members by district number3Linda Maio. Cheryl Davila. Ben Bartlett. Kate Harrison. Sophie Hahn. Susan Wengraf. Kriss Worthington. Lori Droste  State senator. Nancy Skinner D4  Assemblymember. Tony Thurmond D5  U. S. rep. Barbara Lee D6Area7  Total. Land. 10. 4. 7 sq mi 2. Water. 7. 2. 3 sq mi 1. Elevation81. 71 ft 5. Population 2. 01. Total. 11. 2,5. 80  Estimate 2. Rank. 4th in Alameda County. California  Density. DemonymsBerkeleyan. Time zone. Pacific UTC8  Summer DSTPDT UTC7ZIP codes1. Download Savvy Tv Driver Windows Xp here. Area code. 51. 0FIPS code. GNIS feature IDs. Websitewww. cityofberkeley. Berkeley BURK lee is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California. It is named after the 1. Anglo Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and Emeryville to the south and the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington to the north. Its eastern border with Contra Costa County generally follows the ridge of the Berkeley Hills. The 2. 01. 0 census recorded a population of 1. Berkeley is home to the oldest campus in the University of California system, the University of California, Berkeley, and to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is managed and operated by the University. It also has the Graduate Theological Union, one of the largest religious studies institutions in the world. It is one of the most politically liberal cities in the United States. HistoryeditEarly historyeditThe site of todays City of Berkeley was the territory of the ChochenyoHuchiun band of the Ohlone people when the first Europeans arrived. Evidence of their existence in the area include pits in rock formations, which they used to grind acorns, and a shellmound, now mostly leveled and covered up, along the shoreline of San Francisco Bay at the mouth of Strawberry Creek. Other artifacts were discovered in the 1. The first people of European descent most of whom were born in America, and many of whom were of mixed ancestry arrived with the De Anza Expedition in 1. Today, this is noted by signage on Interstate 8. San Francisco Bay shoreline of Berkeley. The De Anza Expedition led to establishment of the Spanish Presidio of San Francisco at the entrance to San Francisco Bay the Golden Gate, which is due west of Berkeley. Luis Peralta was among the soldiers at the Presidio. For his services to the King of Spain, he was granted a vast stretch of land on the east shore of San Francisco Bay the contra costa, opposite shore for a ranch, including that portion that now comprises the City of Berkeley. Luis Peralta named his holding Rancho San Antonio. The primary activity of the ranch was raising cattle for meat and hides, but hunting and farming were also pursued. Eventually, Peralta gave portions of the ranch to each of his four sons. What is now Berkeley lies mostly in the portion that went to Peraltas son Domingo, with a little in the portion that went to another son, Vicente. No artifact survives of the Domingo or Vicente ranches, but their names survive in Berkeley street names Vicente, Domingo, and Peralta. However, legal title to all land in the City of Berkeley remains based on the original Peralta land grant. The Peraltas Rancho San Antonio continued after Alta California passed from Spanish to Mexican sovereignty after the Mexican War of Independence. However, the advent of U. S. sovereignty after the MexicanAmerican War, and especially, the Gold Rush, saw the Peraltas lands quickly encroached on by squatters and diminished by dubious legal proceedings. The lands of the brothers Domingo and Vicente were quickly reduced to reservations close to their respective ranch homes. The rest of the land was surveyed and parceled out to various American claimants See. Kellersbergers Map. Politically, the area that became Berkeley was initially part of a vast Contra Costa County. On March 2. 5, 1. Alameda County was created from a division of Contra Costa County, as well as from a small portion of Santa Clara County. What became Berkeley was then the northern part of the Oakland Township subdivision of Alameda County. During this period, Berkeley was mostly a mix of open land, farms, and ranches, with a small, though busy, wharf by the bay. Late 1. 9th centuryeditIn 1. Oaklands private College of California looked for a new site. It settled on a location north of Oakland along the foot of the Contra Costa Range later called the Berkeley Hills astride Strawberry Creek, at an elevation about 5. Bay Area and the Pacific Ocean through the Golden Gate. According to the Centennial Record of the University of California, In 1. Founders Rock, a group of College of California men watched two ships standing out to sea through the Golden Gate. One of them, Frederick Billings, thought of the lines of the Anglo Irish Anglican Bishop George Berkeley, westward the course of empire takes its way, and suggested that the town and college site be named for the eighteenth century Anglo Irish philosopher. Although the philosophers name is pronounced bark lee, the pronunciation of the citys name has evolved to suit American English as burk lee. The College of Californias College Homestead Association planned to raise funds for the new campus by selling off adjacent parcels of land. To this end, they laid out a plat and street grid that became the basis of Berkeleys modern street plan. Their plans fell far short of their desires, and they began a collaboration with the State of California that culminated in 1. University of California. As construction began on the new site, more residences were constructed in the vicinity of the new campus. At the same time, a settlement of residences, saloons, and various industries grew around the wharf area called Ocean View. A horsecar ran from Temescal in Oakland to the university campus along what is now Telegraph Avenue. The first post office opened in 1. By the 1. 87. 0s, the Transcontinental Railroad reached its terminus in Oakland. In 1. 87. 6, a branch line of the Central Pacific Railroad, the Berkeley Branch Railroad, was laid from a junction with the mainline called Shellmound now a part of Emeryville into what is now downtown Berkeley. That same year, the mainline of the transcontinental railroad into Oakland was re routed, putting the right of way along the bay shore through Ocean View. There was a strong prohibition movement in Berkeley at this time. In 1. 87. 6, the state enacted the mile limit law, which forbade sale or public consumption of alcohol within one mile 1. University of California. Then, in 1. 89. 9 Berkeley residents voted to make their city an alcohol free zone. Scientists, scholars and religious leaders spoke vehemently of the dangers of alcohol. In 1. 87. 8, the people of Ocean View and the area around the university campus, together with local farmers, incorporated as the Town of Berkeley. The first elected trustees of the town were the slate of Denis Kearneys Workingmans Party, who were particularly favored in the working class area of the former Ocean View, now called West Berkeley. The area near the university became known for a time as East Berkeley. The modern age came quickly to Berkeley, no doubt due to the influence of the university. Electric lights were in use by 1. The telephone had already come to town. Electric streetcars soon replaced the horsecar.